Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain W.A. Richardson, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Lieut. William Augustus Richardson’; 1914-15 Star (42015 Gnr. W. A. Richardson, Can. Fd. Art.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. A. Richardson), the last with officially re-impressed naming, contact marks, generally very fine (4) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

William Augustus Richardson was a pre-war member of the Canadian Militia, having served in the 2nd Regiment. Enlisting in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Vancouver in September 1914, he was posted to the 3rd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, in which capacity he was awarded his M.C., which distinction he received from the King at Buckingham Palace on 30 January 1918.